Global Banking & Markets Operations - Project Manager-New York-Associate

The Operations business partners with all areas of the firm to deliver banking, sales and trading and asset management capabilities to clients around the world. Alongside this vital service delivery role, Operations provides essential risk management and control, preserving and enhancing the firm’s assets and its reputation. Operations span all product lines and markets.
Transformation and Control Solutions (TCS) is a global team that sits within Regulatory & Control Operations and acts as a center of project management excellence for the Operations division focusing on Regulatory related projects. TCS plans and executes projects with significant regulatory risk and / or strategy implications, in partnership with various teams across Goldman Sachs.
Responsibilities
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Testing and implementation, in particular user acceptance testing
• Work with Operations business units to assess and streamline processes in order to mitigate risk or control issues and generate efficiencies
• Build and manage relationships with key project stakeholders in Operations, Technology and Business
• Provide support and advice to Operations management and project teams on project management tools and methods
• Business analysis and requirements definition
• Project initiation and scoping, including definition of plans and setting and managing realistic expectations for successful delivery with project stakeholder
• Lead complex and high-priority projects, and manage sponsors and stakeholders with competing priorities, resourcing levels and time constraints across all typical project phases:
• Ongoing project management and quality assurance throughout the project

Experience / Skills / Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree
• Project scope definition
• 3 - 10 years of professional experience – required
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills both written and oral
• Be proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Visio and Sharepoint (BPM through Signavio and Aletryx preferred)
• ‘Big picture’ understanding
• Attention to detail and ability to work to tight deadlines under pressure and to provide practical solution
• Provides creative & innovative solutions
• Demonstrate confidence in interaction with senior stakeholders
• Great organization skills - ability to handle multiple tasks, prioritize accordingly and make decisions as required
• Status reporting
• Previous experience ideally from financial services and / or management consulting
• Demonstrate excellent people management skills and ability to influence key stakeholders outside their direct control
• Strong analytical skills and project management technical skills
• Strategic thinker with strong business analysis and planning skills. Capable of identifying and interpreting wider-ranging issues:
• Have a proven track record of scoping and driving delivery of projects and achieving results independently on time and to budget including
• Demonstrate understanding of Operations processes and procedures and an ability to learn quickly – knowledge of processes related to Operations or the Financial Services industry would be an advantage.
• Demonstrated ability to work across products, regions and functions, preferably in the financial services industry
• Be a motivated, energetic team player
• 2 years of project management experience
• Development of high quality deliverables
• Project issues, challenges, risks definition
• Be a strategic thinker, able to lead project working groups, possessing strong facilitation and data gathering skills, and able to provide creative & innovative solutions
• Ability to work in project teams to help formulate the implications of a specific solution across the process, e.g. costs, risk, potential for re-use of services developed, etc.
• Ability to formulate the implications of a specific solution across processes, e.g. costs, risk, service
• Be highly collaborative, team-oriented and strong consensus builder

Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $80000-$135000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here .